The truth is not partisan / Florida

Greg Palast exposes the money, the networks and the numbers behind some of the past few years' serious political blunders. Finally, someone is reporting and remembering our recent history. This is the closest to George Orwell's 1984 we've ever been, and you can tell because not one network journalist has the nerve to say that. Check out Dan Rather's fear of being called unpatriotic...

Republicans are basically saying, "You're with Bush on every step or you're anti-American." Me, and the other liberals I know, are not anti-American. We are patriotic and have deep reverence for America's institutions. In fact, despite the improvements we long for, we think this is the best country in which to live in the world. And we say that in comparison to the experience of many others.

To paraphrase Kerry's wife on 60 Minutes last night, to declare that someone's values are skewed based solely on their income or their race IS un-American. Thank you, but George Bush is not our America.

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For one thing, Bush just gave the finger to a powerful organization that generally represents 15% of our population; he has declined an invitation to speak before the NAACP. If this isn't race bating, little is. That's a really "uniter" idea after his party illegally disenfranchised over 50,000 Americans in Florida in 2000 (the majority of those kicked off the voter rolls by Jeb Bush & Katherine Harris were black). This is an action that easily explains why black and white people jeered Bush at MLK's grave in Atlanta last year.

Also, improving education for minorities is something both the NAACP and National Urban League put as their No. 1 priority. I am considering volunteering for the NUL because I have a hard time living with the huge inequities that exist between minority and caucasian education in L.A. And even caucasian education isn't where it should be. No matter what the reasons for low achievement may be, we're not tackling any of them. In many ways, Bush, and other politicians, have no problem living with this social inequity.

This so-called leader is a chef that can't take the heat in his own corrupted kitchen (this can be taken literally, see his FDA below) and he's never explained Florida, and no one's ever paid for it. Like it or not, he is the U.S. President for those who didn't vote for him, and even those he actually prevented from voting against him. Where is the outrage in "white" America?! I assume that it's being censored.